Porygon 81/106 · Great Encounters

Great Encounters is a set in the Diamond & Pearl series. It was released on February 1, 2008. The printed size is 106, and the checklist is the same length. Porygon is 81/106, in position 81 of 106 on this checklist. Before it is 80 Mudkip, and after it is 82 Slowpoke. The listed rarity is Common.

Porygon is a Basic Colorless Pokémon with 50 HP. The card lists level 7. In the Pokédex this is Porygon (#137), generation 1 (Kanto). The card lists Porygon2, Porygon2 (#233) under evolves to.

Kent Kanetsuna illustrated this card. The same name is on 74 other cards in the catalog.

Porygon (#137) has 23 other cards in the catalog. Those other cards are in 22 sets. The other printings with a release date run from 1999 to 2025. The earliest other card is Porygon 39/102 in Base (1999). That card lists 30 HP, and this one lists 50 HP. The rarity there is Uncommon, and here it is Common. Tomoaki Imakuni illustrated that card, and Kent Kanetsuna illustrated this one. 15 other cards of Porygon list a different HP.

The attack Calculate lists no damage number. The cost is Colorless. Look at the top 3 cards of your deck and put them back on top of your deck in any order. Sharpen is another attack lists 20 damage. The cost is Colorless, Colorless. Weakness is Fighting +10. Retreat cost is 1. The flavor text reads "The world's first artificially created Pokémon. It can travel through electronic space."

I keep a set binder for Great Encounters, meant to hold every card of that set. This card is one slot in the Great Encounters set binder. A generation binder holds one card of each species. Porygon can fill a slot in Generation 1 binder (Kanto). I still need this card.